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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

[Hubert] Humphrey, Senator [John] Kennedy announces his candidacy, and then on the Republican side, Vice President [Richard] Nixon announced his. Still no personal activity on the President's part, and you weren't aware of anything at this early stage
; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression

fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

been Admiral [Richard Evelyn] Byrd, 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh
the day of LBJ's acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; why LBJ accepted the nomination and Mrs. Johnson's reaction to it; animosity between LBJ and Richard Nixon.

, and to take this lesser job. But, Lyndon feared that the Democratic Party would lose, [Richard] Nixon would win, and the Democratic Party would be out for years and years. And so he opted for doing what he thought of as a duty, and accepting the nomination

covered East Texas with Wright. They went to Paris and the Lone Star Steel Plant and Hughes Springs, Linden, Atlanta, Texarkana, Jefferson. Meanwhile, Lyndon talked on the phone with [Richard] Russell trying his best to get Russell to come out

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

personal, highly devoted district that Mr. Sam had, found it more difficult, but wasn't about to give in on it. And one of the kind of shiny moments in the year, for me, was when Sir Lawrence Olivier was there putting on Richard III, and for some reason

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg

came up for that, and the Vice President, Mr. [Richard] Nixon, with Pat dropped by to pay his respects to his President's Cabinet members. In fact, we had a large quota of Republicans there: the Speaker, Joe Martin--it was a brief interlude when he

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you remember the hotel that you lived at? J: I think it was called the Nixon. It was the old Driscoll Hotel, it seems to me, that we stayed in when we made our brief trip down there to meet his boss. But I believe we lived in--frankly, I don't know
; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins

, the youngest man to ever hold that, in years and in seniority. One thing that gave him a lot of satisfaction was that he was nominated by [Richard] Russell of Georgia, to him the always top senator, and he was seconded by Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

teaching school, the second one after he came to Washington, and I think still as a member of the staff of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg, a job in the Library of Congress. She did it well. She was a source of pride. They were never as congenial as I would

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1977 INTERVIEWEES: Lady Bird Johnson [CTJ] , O. B. Hardeman [OBH], Ralph Huitt [RH], Lindy Boggs [LB], J. J. Pickle [JJP], Lynda Robb [LR], Luci Nugent [LN], Dean Reid [DR], Patsy Steves CPS], Carl Albert rCA], Beryl Pickle [BP], Richard Neustadt [RN
Neustadt, Richard E. (Richard Elliot), 1919-2003

that one of the most faithful, and one of the nicest, ones we ever had was Pat Nixon. I don't think she missed a Tuesday unless she was out of the country with her husband. We took it rather seriously. I, too, later on acquired that job. We had a high point
; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)

or tips on to Mrs. Nixon? Dr. Gould's essay is going to focus in on the institution office of First Ladies and we're sort of interested of the in whether there LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

this was Liz's advice, and golly, I'm glad she spoke up and did it, because I think this is something that ought to have been done. Nixon had poured just as much effort into this 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

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